Orbit of the Moon

The Moons of Saturn Saturn has 62 known moons on verified orbits but only 53 have been officially named so far. Thirteen of these moons have diameters of more than 31 miles, thick rings and very complex orbital motions. Saturn’s moons range in size from small moonlets of less than a mile of diameter to big ones that are larger than planets like Mercury. 24 of these moons are classified as regular satellites as they have prograde orbits. The other 38 are small, except Phoebe, irregular satellites…

a mars sized rock created a modern tool used everyday by everybody. Earth’s moon is unique in matter and how it became apart of our planet's orbit. Moons are captured by their planets by their rings and pull of the orbit of the planet. Jupiter has 60 captured moons all with different molecular material than the other. Earth's moon was discovered to have matched a sample of earth's soil indicating the making of the moon involved earth rather than a capturing of this mass as jupiter…

important celestial bodies that keep earth stable environment for all living creatures.The earth, moon, and sun are the bodies that are included in everyone's daily lives and they are important for everythings survival. The earth spins on an axis, one full spin is called a rotation.One full rotation takes 24 hours, 24 is one day, 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. The earth orbits the sun, one full orbit is called a revolution, a revolution is one year, and a year is about 365¼ days.…

• page 630 Our moon is the only natural satellite and it accompanies earth in anuual journey around the sun. The earths moon is unusually large compared to its partner planet. Scientists thought that when earth was forming a piece was sliced off. The Diameter of the moon is 3475 and the earths diameter is 12756, Which is about one fourth of the earths diameter. Most information of the moon come from the Apollo moon missions. Between 1969 and 1972 there have been six spacecraft landings.…

well as its composition of primarily hydrogen and carbon. The planet has an average temperature of -145 degrees Celsius. Its full name of Jupiter comes from the king of the Roman gods. Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter along with its four largest moons on January 4th 1609. The planet’s iconic red, white, brown, and yellow stripes are due to regional changes. The white and yellow stripes, known as zones, are due to Jupiter’s atmospheric gasses rising upwards, whereas the red and brown stripes,…

Saturn we automatically think that it’s that one planet with the the ring around it. Some people even assume that it’s the one and only planet with a ring about it. Those people would be wrong. Saturn is one of four planets that have rings in their orbit. The other three would include Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The sixth planet in our solar system definitely has the largest in size and by far the most interesting out of the four. Like mention as second ago, Saturn is the sixth planet within…

from the sun and was named bu the ancient Romans for the God of War, because its surface is red. It has to small moons in orbit arount, Phobos and Deimos. Jupiter: is the fifth planet from the Sun and was named after the Roman god who is the king of gods, thunder and the sky. It has colored bands running around the planet, which represent high powered winds. In addition, it has 67 moons. Saturn: it is the sixth planet from the Sun. Its atmosphere is compose by helium and hydrogen dominating,…

night so the moon relies on the sun to set and rise during a certain time in the hemisphere 2.The seasons result from the 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth's axis combined with its revolution around the sun 3.The Moon's and Sun's gravitational pulls on Earth are responsible for this natural phenomenon creating the tides. Tides occur because the Moon's gravity decreases with distance from the Moon. 4. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the Sun and the Moon and…

the Cold War era. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union hooked a competition to see who had the best technology in space. This is included such events as who could put the first spacecraft with man into orbit and who would be the first to walk on the Moon. The Space Race was considered important because it showed to the world about which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. The Space Race began after the World War II. Both, The United States and…

satellite is a space body which has been created by colliding of two or more space objects (for ex. meteorites). There are two types of satellites: natural satellites (like moon, an earth’s satellite) and man-made (artificial), satellites launched to the orbit by people. Natural satellites A natural satellite is space body that orbits another space body bigger than itself. Natural satellites are not man-made satellites. They come from space and when a satellite enters the atmosphere of a…